Culture

News about culture, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Dec. 1, 2016

Ginia Bellafante Big City column recounts activism of artists throughout New York City during 1980s, when creative community seemed to be regularly confronting Wall Street greed, neighborhood gentrification, homophobia and AIDS epidemic. MORE

Nov. 23, 2016

Neighborhood Joint column on 92nd Street Y, 150-year-old cultural institution located on Upper East Side of Manhattan; organization is notable for hosting lectures, classes, exhibits and performances by award-winning artists. MORE

Nov. 15, 2016

Manchester International Festival announces four commissions in multiple disciplines for 2017 festival and new year-round program My Festival: MIF’s Creative Community, which allows local residents to develop their own creative projects. MORE

Oct. 27, 2016

Guide to Halloween-themed cultural events around New York City categorized by people's favorite villains listed. MORE

Oct. 7, 2016

Lincoln Center will live stream on Facebook day of work for 11 arts organizations based there as part of event A Day in the Life at Lincoln Center; event is latest attempt by arts group to harness power of social media to connect with audiences. MORE

Oct. 3, 2016

Franciscan friars Nicholas Spano and Rev Raphael Zwolenkiewicz hope to revive congregation at San Damiano Mission in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, by offering concerts and other cultural events in 100-year-old church; project has begun to attract neighborhood's young lapsed Catholics to services. MORE

Sep. 23, 2016

Pres Obama hosts National Medals of Arts and Humanities ceremony at White House; 24 people from worlds of art and literature receive awards in raucous celebration. MORE

Sep. 22, 2016

John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation announces 23 winners of 2016 fellowships, known as 'genius' grants. MORE

Sep. 9, 2016

New plan for Ronald O Perelman Performing Arts Center at World Trade Center site is unveiled; building, designed by architecture firm REX is expected to cost $243 million; Barbara Streisand is elected chairwoman of board. MORE

Sep. 6, 2016

Wells Fargo says it will change its latest print ad campaign following objections by entertainers and artists on social media; ads seem to suggest teenagers should set aside their creative aspirations and pursue careers in scientific fields. MORE

Sep. 5, 2016

Lineup of talks, panels, performances and screenings is announced for 17th annual New Yorker Festival. MORE

Sep. 4, 2016

Works in Progress column; American Museum of Natural History is working with local and Cuban scientists and artists on its first bilingual exhibition, Cuba!, exploration of island's biodiversity and culture. MORE

Aug. 25, 2016

Perm Journal; provincial Russian city of Perm has reverted to its status as industrial city after brief renaissance in which it sought to rival Moscow and St Petersburg as cultural hub; that aspiration was opposed by Russian Pres Vladimir V Putin, who had forward-looking regional governor Oleg A Chirkunov replaced with with bureaucrat Viktor F Basargin. MORE

Aug. 18, 2016

Edited excerpts from conversation with Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society chief executive Shona McCarthy, who discusses her first year in job and future plans for venerated festival. MORE

Aug. 10, 2016

City of Harbin, China is is rebuilding its reputation as center for arts and classical music, hoping to draw more world-class musicians with new concert hall, opera house and conservatory; has put new focus on former Jewish community that thrived and helped build rich cultural scene there in early 20th century. MORE

Jul. 26, 2016

Guggenheim Museum announces lineup for Works & Process series, featuring artists from variety of disciplines. MORE

Jul. 24, 2016

Organizers of Lincoln Park Music Festival in Newark expect crowd of 60,000 for three days of music and dance performances; event is part of Newark Celebration 350, citywide yearlong event to celebrate Newark's founding and encourage residents to visit other city neighborhoods (Metropolitan/New Jersey). MORE

Jul. 21, 2016

Jul. 20, 2016

Shed, nonprofit arts center formerly known as Culture Shed, announces its first commissions; new building is scheduled to open in 2019. MORE

Jul. 13, 2016

Art and performance lineup is announced for third annual Totally Thames festival in London. MORE

Jul. 7, 2016

Brooklyn Academy of Music and e Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance draft 'Culture Forward,' series of initiatives to ensure downtown Brooklyn's longstanding identity as arts hub; proposals include affordable artist work spaces and housing, public art, fellowships and cultural investment fund. MORE

Jun. 30, 2016

Billionaire businessman Ronald O Perelman says he will donate $75 million for construction of performing arts center at World Trade Center site; some arts executives question whether city has audiences for so many cultural spaces, but supporters say new Perelman complex will fill niche for midsize theater that can accomodate multimediia works, and point out plan is to make complex main venue for annual Tribeca Film Festival. MORE

Jun. 30, 2016

Performance space Elsewhere, opening in Brooklyn in fall 2016, is spearheaded by Rami Haykal, Jake Rosenthal and Dhruv Chopra, former owners of venue Glasslands Gallery, which closed in 2014; new music and arts space will span 24,000 square feet and feature alternative performers booked through entrepreneurs' promotion company PopGun Presents. MORE

Jun. 27, 2016

East Village performance space La MaMa announces plans to release expanded version of its digital collections website, featuring archival video, photos and media, as part of its 55th anniversary season. MORE

Jun. 24, 2016

List of drag-queen-themed entertainment to celebrate Gay Pride Weekend in New York City highlighted. MORE

Jun. 22, 2016

Authors Pankaj Mishra and Rivka Galchen discuss who gets to make art for art's sake. MORE

Jun. 20, 2016

French Institute Alliance Francaise announces lineup for 10th annual Crossing the Line Festival, including New York premiere of Romeo Castellucci play Julius Caesar. Spared Parts. MORE

Jun. 17, 2016

Wesley Morris Critic's Notebook observes levels of political awareness and activism among black artists in theater, television, movies and music not seen since 1970s. MORE

Jun. 13, 2016

Hearn Generating Station, former power plant in Toronto’s industrial Port Lands area, is transformed into temporary, multi-stage performance and exhibition space for Luminato Festival; future of crumbling building after festival is uncertain. MORE

May. 31, 2016

Obama administration's move to expand overtime pay threatens nonprofits' and creative industries' traditional model of career advancement; opinion is divided over whether disruption of culture in which young, ambitious workers accept low pay for long hours in order to move up career ladder will be beneficial, or even tenable. MORE

May. 23, 2016

May. 19, 2016

Pioneertown, remote community in Southwest California desert founded in 1946 by Hollywood legends including Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, is undergoing renaissance with arrival of artists and entrepreneurs looking for new center for work and play. MORE

May. 17, 2016

Lower East Side cultural center ABC No Rio plans to temporarily relocate operations while crumbling tenement it has occupied since 1980 is razed and replaced by new environmentally friendly building. MORE

May. 6, 2016

Profile of artist Duncan Hannah, enthusiastic explorer of New York City's 1970s pop culture scene and narrator of era; some of his stories are included in book Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, about to be published in expanded 20th-anniversary edition. MORE

Apr. 28, 2016

River to River festival will present several pop-up performances at World Trade Center transportation hub’s Oculus in 2016. MORE